Wide field

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Wide field
City of ice field
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 15 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 470 m above sea level NN
Residents : 70  (2012)
Incorporation : July 1, 1950
Incorporated into: Weitesthal
Postal code : 98678
Area code : 03686
Place view
Place view

Weitesfeld is a district of the town of Eisfeld in the Hildburghausen district in Thuringia .

location

Weitesfeld is located east of Sachsenbrunn on Kreisstrasse 520 in the southern foothills of the Thuringian Slate Mountains .

history

Weitesfeld was first mentioned in a document in 1341.

Weitesfeld was persecuted by witches in 1629 . Michel Morgenroth got into a witch trial and was burned.

On July 1, 1950, the communities of Tossenthal and Weitesfeld were merged to form the new community of Weitesthal . This was incorporated into the community of Sachsenbrunn on April 1, 1974, which in turn was incorporated into Eisfeld on January 1, 2019.

70 people lived in the hamlet-like village (2012).

dialect

Itzgründisch , a Main Franconian dialect, is spoken in Weitesfeld .

Web links

Commons : Weitesfeld  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , S309
  2. Egbert Friedrich: Witch hunt in the Rodach area and the witch trial ordinance of Duke Johann Casimir (writings of the Rodacher Rückert-Kreis, issue 19), Rodach 1995, pp. 192–236.
  3. Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 20, 2019